Every Friday, Tally-Ho Corner’s cleverest clogs come together to solve a ‘foxer’ handcrafted by my sadistic chum and colleague, Roman. A complete ‘defoxing’ sometimes takes several days and usually involves the little grey cells of many readers.
Each pic in this foxer is taken from a Wikipedia page beginning with the letter REDACTED. To fully defox the puzzle, supply Roman with a list of all 25 Wikipedia pages.
In an attempt to ensure as many people as possible get a chance to participate, Roman requests defoxers solve no more than five discs per person on Day 1. (After 24 hours have elapsed, fill your boots!). Use your ration to complete an entire horizontal or vertical line before anyone else to win ‘Connect 5’ bragging rights.
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SOLUTIONS
Last week’s geofoxer theme: Burden of Command (defoxed by Aergistal)
a. hotel MIRAMAR (a_monk)
b. lieutenant DEARBORN (Colonel_K)
c. steve OVERTON (Aergistal)
d. OPERATION DRAGOON (a_monk)
e. luke HUGHES (Aergistal)
f. GREEN TREE games (Aergistal)
g. BURDEN of command (Colonel_K)
h. COLMAR pocket (Nutfield and Mrs Nutfield)
i. sergeant GRANT (Nutfield, Colonel_K)
j. BERCHTESGADEN (unacom)
k. lieutenant WILSON (Colonel_K)
l. captain LAMB (Nutfield)
It feels like I’m defaulting to THC’s sewing expert
A2. Seam ripper
A5. Stratovision – TV rebroadcasting (by Westinghouse not Bob Monchouse)
A4. {misfiled?} (Alonso) Sanchez Coello – portrait of Diego, Prince of Asturias
A1. Shiver my timbers – (both literally and figuratively)
B5 – The Seven Deadly sins – https://i.pinimg.com/736x/da/ad/0f/daad0fd1020f51807635b08d354648d3.jpg
B1 – I think it is members from the KARO tribe, but can’t find the exact picture
B1. STILTS
The picture shows the Children of the Banna people in Ethiopia on stilts.
Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stilts
B3 – SOOTY ALBATROSS Hand puppets? :p – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebetria
C5 – A drawing from 1777 showing an Aztec person collecting cochineal insects from cacti (Or so it says so here :)) – https://bcss.org.uk/uses-of-cacti-and-succulents/
Wiki version – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochineal#/media/File:Indian_collecting_cochineal.jpg
Either Scale insect
or Scarlet (colour)
Maybe there is something to do with high altitude flying? A5 Stratovision and C5 Carmine (What is extracted from Cochineal) Vito who flew a U-2 spy plane over Moscow?
B2. Superyacht – Phillippe Starck-designed sail-assisted motor yacht A (just A)
D4. Spike – Israeli ATGM
D2. Sacramento Northern 654 is a 65-ton, steeple-cab, locomotive built by General Electric in 1930.
Here: https://www.railpictures.net/photo/176575/
D2. Sacramento Northern Railway
Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento_Northern_Railway
C3 – 1959 Setra S9
Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setra
C2. Shirt of Nessus, which was the poisoned shirt that killed Heracles.
Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirt_of_Nessus
B4. Cardinal Richelieu at Siege of La Rochelle. The painting is Cardinal Richelieu on the Sea Wall of La Rochelle at the time of the siege, 1881 depiction by Henri-Paul Motte.
Here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Siege_of_La_Rochelle_1881_Henri_Motte.png
B4. Siege of La Rochelle
D5. The Dream, 1844, Gustave Courbet
Depict a woman sleeping in a hammock. This picture can be found on Wikipedia pages about Siesta, Hammock and Gustave Courbet.
Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siesta
D5. Siesta
A3. Sievert
The picture is a display of background radiation in a hotel at Naraha, Japan, showing dose rate in microsieverts per hour, five years after the Fukushima disaster. Nahara is located in Fukushima Prefecture.
Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sievert
E2. An elephant chasing a dog? I found this picture on Reddit, but I really don’t know how it is connected to this foxer. I didn’t find anything related to this in Wikipedia.
Here: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/op34p5/an_elephant_chasing_after_a_dog/
C1. Skywriting.
The plane is a Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a. Built in 1917, serviced as ‘F937’. Later sold, it was registered as “G-EBIB” and modified for skywriting. It is now on display in the Flight Hall of the Science Museum, South Kensington, London.
Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skywriting
Remain to be found, in no particular order:
D1 – E1
E2, as I don’t know what is the source of this picture
D3 – E3
C4 – E4
E5
E2 – Sri Lankan elephant
E1. Swan Hunter (whose logo is oddly a swordfish)
photo similar to ones taken by Chris Killip = World Unicorn, built by Swan Hunter at the Wallsend shipyard, Tyneside, in 1973.
E5 – Schützenfest
D1. Silly String, also known as aerosol string
The picture was taken during Halloween, at Aviano Air Base, Italy, 2005
Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silly_String
E4 – Shoeburyness: auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) personnel at the Royal Artillery Experimental Unit using the Window Position Finder to sight shell bursts in the air or water, 1943.
E3 Steven Spielberg
C4 – Scenic Painting
D3. Shaved Ice
A granizado cart in Havana, Cuba
Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaved_ice
Letter is S
A1. Shiver my timbers
A2. Seam ripper
A3. Sievert
A4. (Alonso) Sanchez Coello
A5. Stratovision
B1. Stilts
B2. Superyacht
B3. Sooty Albatross
B4. Siege of La Rochelle
B5. The Seven Deadly sins
C1. Skywriting.
C2. Shirt of Nessus
C3. Setra
C4. Scenic Painting
C5. Scale insect or Scarlet (colour)
D1. Silly String
D2. Sacramento Northern Railway
D3. Shaved Ice
D4. Spike
D5. Siesta
E1. Swan Hunter
E2. Sri Lankan elephant
E3. Steven Spielberg
E4. Shoeburyness
E5. Schützenfest